Children’s Playground Replaced With Brick Wall Due to Lack of Funding

The playground equipment at Audenshaw’sShepley Wood Park was getting a little old, so it was dismantled and town officials promised it would be replaced with new, updated facilities. However, funding was pulled, so the playground equipment was replaced by a brick wall, you know, for children to “kick a ball against,” as member of Tameside council Kevin Welsh explained. He doesn’t seem to be an evil fella, though:

“We would have liked nothing more than to create a play area at Shepley Wood Park.

There was a project in place but the money was taken from us by the Coalition government which first froze Playbuilder funding and then slashed it.”